The Courage Map: 13 Principles For Living Boldly

The Courage MapPublisher: TCK Publishing
Published: May 10, 2020
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 139
Form: Paperback
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Buy: The Courage Map: 13 Principles to Living Boldly

Why do some people make brave decisions that steer them to lead exciting, rewarding, and impactful lives while others watch from the sidelines?

In this book, you’ll discover 13 principles for living boldly. You’ll learn to tap into your inner courage and use it to chart a course to a better future and a better world. get ready to face your fears, stand in your truth, and embrace life to the fullest!

Written in her unique and fearlessly quirky style, The Courage Map provides direction and guidance for readers who seek to lead a life of courage, meaning, and impact.

“Every day I see people doing great things in the world. What do they have in common? The courage to go after their dreams and make a positive impact. Franziska’s book shows how that message can support you in running your life and business based on courage, love, and kindness instead of fear.”
-Sir Richard Branson

My Thoughts on The Courage Map

 

In The Courage Map, author Franziska Iseli takes us on her journey through the Silk Road. Along the way, she guides us through 13 Principles to develop courage and live life out loud despite our fears. The first and my favorite principle is STORIES.  As our lives take shape we all begin to identify as the stories we tell about ourselves. And so often we cling to the negative stories we’ve developed to justify and excuse why we may not be where we want to be in life. Or to soothe ourselves for regretting not having had the experiences we wish we had. Some of us are perpetual victims, some of us believe for one reason or another we are undeserving of our desires and nothing could be further from the truth.

Unfortunately and fortunately the stories we tell become our beliefs. Every one of us can CHOOSE to change our stories at any moment. For me, this is the foundation in building and developing courage and I’m glad the author led with this. Franziska Islei does a wonderful job of walking the audience through each of her courage-building principles and I love that the author uses her personal journey along the Silk road to give the reader real-world examples of how to put each principle into practice. Unlike many self-help books, the author doesn’t just say. “do it this way”.   She offers examples and real stories to illustrate her points and the effects they had and can have in our own lives.  The fact that the book is based on the real-life experiences of the author gives it an added layer of depth and authenticity.

Going Deeper

At the end of each chapter, Iseli suggests new thoughts and ideas we can adopt in regard to each principle in the form of ‘Travel Tunes’.   There is also a list of thought-provoking questions for us to work through at the end of each chapter to help us dive deeper into the material and our own courage-building journeys. This book will guide you through building your very own courage map. In addition to the book, you can download a free copy of The Courage Map Journal for yourself here. For anyone wanting an even more in-depth experience, the author offers a course on her website. I personally have not taken the course but I enjoyed the book and found it inspiring and useful.  I’ve begun adopting some of the ‘Travel Tunes’ for myself and look forward to living life more courageously.

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Current Read: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

My current read is Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza. I’ve been on a bit of a spiritual journey for a year or so now. Last last year I discovered Neville Goddard and devoured his lectures on YouTube and eventually bought his books.

Dr. Dispenza is a student or one who has studied Neville’s teachings. While I wholly believe in Neville’s teachings and believe they work if you work them, I have always been my Mother’s WHY child. I not only wanted to know what, but I needed to know why.

In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Dispenza presents Neville’s principles and merges it with the actual science of how our brains work. Thus explaining how we can access the subconscious where our lifelong programs and habits are and begin dismantling them and inserting new programs and habits that will improve your life and get you unstuck and out of the habit of being yourself.

Quick Thoughts

So far I am completely fascinated by my current read, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. Dr. Dispenza also dedicated a whole section of his book to explain a four-week meditation practice that will help you to break old habits and thought patterns and develop new ones promoting love, joy, etc.  This section also contains short writing or journaling prompts to help you get to the heart of things.  I personally love to journal every day.  If you’d like some tips on how to start journaling then please check out my previous post here.

Once I am done reading the book, I plan on putting the meditation into practice and I will come back with a life update and a review later. Have you read anything interesting or helpful lately?